Category Archives: Art

NO EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

a gallery presents NO EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP featuring latest season jewelry from UNDERGROUND SUNDAE (Annemieke Ytsma), Jess Kitto and Sharon Singer. Clothing and accessories by, T R FRANC (Tara Young and Molly Francesca Barrington), TRASH SKATES (Sam Robertson) and Vandal Apparel (Jay Hutchinson) Record Sleeves by Mr Sam Ovens and more to come…Exploit …

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Gary McMillan SECTOR 8 Review by Franky Strachan Printed in the ODT 17/11/11

The four greyscale paintings that comprise “Sector 8” seize the walls of the A Gallery with distinctive temporal intensity. They are realist works, taken from films that the Auckland-based artist has made for the sole purpose of later painting from them. The paintings produced are thus “life-stills” rather than portraits or urban landscapes in the …

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Review on the Yallop & Smith Memorial Exhibition by James Dignan Printed in the ODT 20/10/11

There is no denying that Ray Yallop and Des Smith were major Dunedin arts personalities.Patrons and collectors, their house overflowed with art from the Victorian to the modern, and the gatherings of artists that they hosted have passed into legend. Smith died in early 2009, followed a year later by his partner, and it is …

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